| 释义 |
biggity, a. orig. and chiefly U.S. dial.|ˈbɪgɪtɪ|
Also biggety.
[f. big a. + -y1; -it-, -et- unexplained, but cf. bigoted a. and uppity a.]
Vain, conceited, boastful; assertive, impudent. Also as adv.
1880J. C. Harris Uncle Remus xviii, Like po'in' spring water on one er deze yer biggity fices. 1898Westm. Gaz. 11 Mar. 3/2 John Bull naturally talks ‘biggity’ about his Navy. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling xxxi. 382 You mighty biggety now you're a yearlin'. 1940C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter (1943) i. iii. 42 From the biggity way you been acting lately it seem to me like you already got one toe in the pit. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues i. 5 We had a yen..to strut and act biggity. |